Buzzfeed's experience with breaking news makes it clear that hoaxes are eroding Twitter's value during a major news event.
Hoaxers are crippling Twitter's breaking news value
social media verification
A collection of 16 posts
Serious about "fake news"? Back Bellingcat
Any one paying attention to journalism right now knows that misinformation, disinformation and “fake news” are becoming a more significant part of our cultural landscape. Luckily, we have some very skilled people working to deal with these issue. In particular,…
Defining the real forms of Fake News
The lovely, lovely First Draft Coalition has been doing some excellent work in unpicking the roots of the real “Fake News”, before that phrase got co-opted. In particular, research director Claire Wardle has expended on work by Elliot Higgins to…
About that 1998 Trump interview…
You know this quote from Trump’s People magazine interview in 1998 that’s been doing the rounds? This one: Fake. Cognitive bias can catch you out, whatever side of the political spectrum you sit.…
Buzzfeed is trying to speed up social media debunking
Buzzfeed has a social media verification team: BuzzFeed Canada editor and First Draft Coalition member Craig Silverman will be leading the charge from Toronto, “bringing his deep expertise at debunking hoaxes to our reporting arsenal,” said Scott Lamb, BuzzFeed’s…